Slow-cooker Bolognaise Sauce with Hidden Vegetables

This is a large recipe that makes enough bolognaise sauce to last the average family four meals. It can be frozen for up to three months, and once it has defrosted in the fridge overnight, it is simply a matter of heating it up and boiling some pasta.

An enormous pot of healthy pasta sauce

You can use almost any vegetables you like  I used mushrooms, sweet potato and zucchini  but you could also use pumpkin (grated or boiled and mashed if you want it really hidden), fresh or frozen spinach, celery, parsnip, carrot, capsicum and broccoli stalks.

You can use almost any vegetables you fancy, as long as it adds up to about one kilogram

If you have a food processor with a grater attachment  definitely use it, as it will cut the prep time to practically nothing. Obviously this wont work with wet vegetables like onions and spinach  you will still have to chop those by hand.

My kids say they don't like mushrooms, but once you chop them small, no one can see (or taste) them

This recipe also utilises both traditional pasta sauce and tomato soup. You can use just one or the other if you prefer. Tomato soup is a great alternative when kids get fussy about pasta sauce because it seems naturally sweeter, but despite what you may think it actually has less calories, less sugar and more tomatoes than pasta sauce.

If you use a food processor to grate your veg, they will be quite large and noticeable

Keep in mind that grated foods are usually still visible after cooking, though many kids wont notice when the sauce is poured over spaghetti, but if you are really trying to hide your vegetables, blitz the grated veggies with the chopping blade (mushrooms can be chopped this way) so they are small enough that even the most eagle eyed child (or husband) will notice.

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